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What’s Your Cosmic Pain Slut?
This question will come as no surprise if you have read Existential Kink: Unmask your Shadow and Embrace your Power; A Method for Getting What You Want by Getting Off…
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Life Persists
This summer, a single rose, blousy and beautiful has inspired awe and gratitude in my heart. Awe for the sheer wonder of the natural world that produces such intricacy out…
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Mundane Love
This heart shaped potato found its way from a local croft to my kitchen and triggered the thought: perhaps I’ve been looking for love in all the wrong places. Buried…
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Beyond Pornography
Our desire for intimacy is natural and yet many of us struggle to create the meaningful, sexually vital relationships we long for. In the absence of authentic connection, pornography and…
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Completion
In the Grief Recovery Method we talk about becoming complete with grief. I like this choice of language. It’s not covering up, denying, repressing or hiding. Nor is it wallowing,…
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Re-thinking the Trajectory of Grief
It’s my daughter’s twenty second birthday; she’s celebrating 450 miles away, so after an early morning phone call, I am left to my memories. Labour came on fast and furiously.…
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When Poverty Comes Calling – Navigating Financial Loss
It’s easy to say that money’s not the most important thing in the world when you’ve got enough, but when poverty comes calling, it’s a different story. Suddenly, everything is…
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The Making of a Storyteller
I have always loved stories. My mum continued to read to me long after I had started to read myself. While I was making my way through Janet and John,…
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Once upon a time, I was in a therapist’s office at the renowned Tavistock Clinic. It feels like a fairytale, it’s so long ago. This was the meeting with the…
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Supporting a Grieving Friend – the Exception to the Rule
I recently sent a card of support to a friend who is accompanying a relative as she’s dying. In it I wrote a sentiment that I have frequently asserted should…